Question 2 • CMS 2026-2027 World History: Issues and Patterns CREDIT RECOVERY
The Commercial Revolution was the major expansion and transformation of European trade beginning in the 1500s, fueled in part by contact between Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The Columbian Exchange brought new goods, crops, and trading connections that reshaped commerce. It was not a decrease in trade, nor simply a trade war or the replacement of colonialism with mercantilism.
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